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Student residents in Jerde have been fighting parking pro-blems
caused by the reduction of parking space available
during the building of the Barnett Center.
Non-Profit Org.
U.S. Postage
PAID
Aberdeen, S.D. 57401
Permit No. 77
Northern State College, Issue 4, Vol. 86, October 23, 1986
Jerde residents face parking problem
General
News
pages
3& 6
Entertainment
Arts
pages
4 & 5
Sports
pages 7
Top of ticket
candidates
to appear
at Northern
by Cletus Thomas
Exponent Staff
This year, for the first time,
returning students to Jerde Hall
have a major parking problem.
With the building of the Barnett
Physical Education Center, the
Jerde Hall parking lot has been
temporarily reduced to about one
fourth its normal size. This is forc-ing
many students to park their
cars on side streets as far as five
by Kari Thompson
Government Editor
The South Dakota Student
Federation and the South Dakota
Board of Regents met on the cam-pus
of Northern State October 15,
16, and 18. The Student Federation
met Wednesday night at 7:30 p.m.
in the Student Association Office
and went on until 11:45 or so. The
agenda was very long and the
members were all prepared to
discuss them thoroughly. Among
some of the highlights was the 50
minute class period option, foreign
language requirement, open
enrollment, the general activity
fund, and student fees.
In June of this year, the Federa-tion
sent out a questionnaire to all
the candidates running for the
blocks away from campus. Snow
removal will add to the parking
problem in the future.
In addition to the parking pro-blem,
the city has been ticketing
cars which were not moved before
scheduled street cleaning in the
Jerde area. Although street clean-ing
schedules were issued at the
beginning of the semester, an error
in the schedule caused many
students to receive tickets. Dean of
Students Dr. Ted Berg and City
legislature. As it turns out, 46% of
them were returned (51% from
House candidates and 28% from
Senate candidates.) The survey
showed that the majority of the
candidates were supportive of the
views that students have.
The open enrollment issue was
also discussed. The open enroll-ment
bill introduced in the
legislature last year made it
through both the Senate and House
and was then vetoed by Governor
Janklow. The House could not sus-tain
the veto, so it was never put
before the Senate again.
It was decided by the Federation
to fight the Regents version of the
academic calendar. It seems that a
lot of the students as well as facul-ty
do not like the 55 minute class
Commissioner Tom Hopper met
and allowed these tickets turned in
by students to be invalidated. This
did not end the problem. According
to Dr. Berg, students have com-plained
the Police are not consis-tent
with their issuing of tickets
Students have told Dr. Berg the
Police don't always ticket every
week and some students have said
the only cars receiving tickets are
those with campus parking
stickers, while cars without the
stickers were not ticketed. Dr.
Berg also said he has not checked
into these allegations and has no
evidence to support these claims.
Adding to the lack of parking
space, the fine for failing to move
vehicles on the street cleaning
route was raised from three
dollars to ten dollars this past sum-mer.
Many students say this is too
high a price, and if the Police
ticket 40 cars in a night, that adds
up to a lot of money coming out of
students' pockets.
The basic problem is : Where can
these students park? Dr. Berg sug-gests
students park their cars in
the Johnson Fine Arts Center lot or
in the parking lots west of the Stu-dent
Union and the Library on
nights the streets are cleaned.
As of last week, cars were allow-ed
to park on the west side of State
Street. This added about 25 park-ing
spaces. The east side of State
Street is for temporary parking on-ly.
periods for various reasons-lack of
attention span, messy class
schedules, etc. We were successful
on this one, by the way.
Thursday morning started out
with the Regent appointed Alcohol
Task Force, of which Northern's
very own Kevin Miles is a
member, along with Dr. Ted Berg,
who is the chairman. When asked
how he felt the meeting went, Berg
said "I thought it was very produc-tive
and the members were very
pleased. It is a very complex isue
and we set some short term and
long term goals and set our
priorities on the specific issues
that we will address. " The task
force will meet again in conjunc-tion
with the December Board of
Regents meeting in Madison.
Director of the Physical Plant
Ralph Johnson said not much is go-ing
to be done with the parking lot
until next spring when landscaping
is expected to begin. He also said
work on the lot probably won't be
completed until next fall. The
Barnett Center is scheduled to be
completed and ready for class use
by the fall of 1987.
While the parking problem may
not be solved to everyones satisfac-tion,
a new problem is soon to
develop this winter. With the corn-ing
of snow and snow removal,
parking spaces will be even fewer.
In addition to this, State Street is
on the emergency snow route. This
means the snow will be removed
from State Street first. While this
sounds great, it could cost students
parking on State Street a lot of
money. According to the City Or-dinance,
any snowfall over three
inches requires cars parked on
emergency snow routes to be mov-ed.
People not moving their cars
will have them towed by the City.
The towing fee is $30. With this pro-blem
quickly approaching, Dr.
Berg said nothing has been done
about it. He also said he plans to
talk to Commissioner Hopper
about this in the future to hopefully
prevent any problems.
Snow removal announcements
are made in advance over local
radio and television stations to let
people know when and where snow
removal will begin.
After an hour-long executive ses-sion
of the Board of Regents, the
Regents convened in the Commit-tee
of the Whole. The Executive
Director Schinness gave his report
and had many praises for our cam-pus,
and the South Dakota higher
education system in general. The
Council of Presidents and
Superintendents gave their reports
to the Board, and then the Board
recessed into the three standing
committees: Committee on
Academic Affairs, Committee on
Internal and External Affairs, and
the Committee on Budget and
Finance. We do have copies of the
minutes of all of these meetings if
anyone is interested in looking at
them. Call 2528 or stop by the Stu-dent
Association Office.
Editorials
Opinions
page 2
Board of Regents and Student
Federation on Northern's campus
South Dakota voters will have a Otto retires after 26 years of service
final opportunity to hear and ques-tion
the state's top-of-the-ticket
political candidates just before the
November 4 election. The Nor-thern
State Student Association
will host a public forum on Mon-day,
October 27, that Democratic
and Republican candidates for
governor, the U.S. Senate, and U.S.
House of Representatives, have
confirmed they will attend.
According to student association
president, Kari Thompson, the
event will be held in Northern
State's Johnson Fine Arts Center
Theatre. Each segment of the pro-gram
will begin with a statement
by the candidates and conclude
with a question and answer session
that will be open to the audience.
She said gubnatorial candidates
George Mickelson and Lars
Herseth will begin the forum at 7
p.m. Jim Abdnor and Tom
Daschle, U.S. Senate candidates,
will appear at 8 p.m. The program
will conclude with a 9 p.m. ap-pearance
by congressional can-didates
Tim Johnson and Dale
Bell.
Thompson said she believes this
will be the final opportunity for
voters to question the six before
the election.
by Deborah Dietz
Besides all the other changes go-ing
on around campus, we'll soon
be seeing one more change take
place. For the past twenty-six
years, Otto Sperle has been the
Custodian for the Union Bldg. All
together, when he retired on Oc-tober
17, he will have dedicated 29
years to keeping Northern clean.
Otto started working for Northern
in 1957 and worked with Tony
Materi in the Administration Bldg.
Then in 1960 when they opened the
Student Union, he moved over to
take charge. Otto told me, "I have
really enjoyed working here, but I
wonder who will be missed the
most—I missing the school, or the
school missing me."
What's the one thing he'll miss
the most: "The students who have
come here over the years. They've
really kept me young." I also ask-ed
him if he has had any real prob-lems
working here. "Not really,"
he replied, "Though every once in
awhile the girls in the kitchen
would holler at me. I just hollered
back, after all, you get along well
that way."
The only Gypsy Day buttons that Otto is missing are the
ones from 1972, 1973, and 1974 to complete his set.
With all the changes over the
past summer, I then asked him if
there have been many changes in
the past. "There really haven't
been any real changes in the Den
part until now. The Den itself will
be harder to take care of now, but
it really does look nice." The one
thing about the changes that he
doesn't like "are the green and
orange clouds."
And what does Otto plan on doing
when he retires? "My wife, Alvina,
and I thought that we would go to
the West Coast for awhile. We've
got friends and relatives out there
that we'd like to see." Otto also has
a couple of hobbies that will keep
him busy. He likes gardening and
also fixes bicycles. "I might even
take up fishing, after all, I received
a brand new rod and reel awhile
ago, and I still haven't had a
chance to use it."
We all wish Otto good luck on his
retirement, and want him to know
that he will be missed.
See page 6,
Retirement party .. .

Student residents in Jerde have been fighting parking pro-blems
caused by the reduction of parking space available
during the building of the Barnett Center.
Non-Profit Org.
U.S. Postage
PAID
Aberdeen, S.D. 57401
Permit No. 77
Northern State College, Issue 4, Vol. 86, October 23, 1986
Jerde residents face parking problem
General
News
pages
3& 6
Entertainment
Arts
pages
4 & 5
Sports
pages 7
Top of ticket
candidates
to appear
at Northern
by Cletus Thomas
Exponent Staff
This year, for the first time,
returning students to Jerde Hall
have a major parking problem.
With the building of the Barnett
Physical Education Center, the
Jerde Hall parking lot has been
temporarily reduced to about one
fourth its normal size. This is forc-ing
many students to park their
cars on side streets as far as five
by Kari Thompson
Government Editor
The South Dakota Student
Federation and the South Dakota
Board of Regents met on the cam-pus
of Northern State October 15,
16, and 18. The Student Federation
met Wednesday night at 7:30 p.m.
in the Student Association Office
and went on until 11:45 or so. The
agenda was very long and the
members were all prepared to
discuss them thoroughly. Among
some of the highlights was the 50
minute class period option, foreign
language requirement, open
enrollment, the general activity
fund, and student fees.
In June of this year, the Federa-tion
sent out a questionnaire to all
the candidates running for the
blocks away from campus. Snow
removal will add to the parking
problem in the future.
In addition to the parking pro-blem,
the city has been ticketing
cars which were not moved before
scheduled street cleaning in the
Jerde area. Although street clean-ing
schedules were issued at the
beginning of the semester, an error
in the schedule caused many
students to receive tickets. Dean of
Students Dr. Ted Berg and City
legislature. As it turns out, 46% of
them were returned (51% from
House candidates and 28% from
Senate candidates.) The survey
showed that the majority of the
candidates were supportive of the
views that students have.
The open enrollment issue was
also discussed. The open enroll-ment
bill introduced in the
legislature last year made it
through both the Senate and House
and was then vetoed by Governor
Janklow. The House could not sus-tain
the veto, so it was never put
before the Senate again.
It was decided by the Federation
to fight the Regents version of the
academic calendar. It seems that a
lot of the students as well as facul-ty
do not like the 55 minute class
Commissioner Tom Hopper met
and allowed these tickets turned in
by students to be invalidated. This
did not end the problem. According
to Dr. Berg, students have com-plained
the Police are not consis-tent
with their issuing of tickets
Students have told Dr. Berg the
Police don't always ticket every
week and some students have said
the only cars receiving tickets are
those with campus parking
stickers, while cars without the
stickers were not ticketed. Dr.
Berg also said he has not checked
into these allegations and has no
evidence to support these claims.
Adding to the lack of parking
space, the fine for failing to move
vehicles on the street cleaning
route was raised from three
dollars to ten dollars this past sum-mer.
Many students say this is too
high a price, and if the Police
ticket 40 cars in a night, that adds
up to a lot of money coming out of
students' pockets.
The basic problem is : Where can
these students park? Dr. Berg sug-gests
students park their cars in
the Johnson Fine Arts Center lot or
in the parking lots west of the Stu-dent
Union and the Library on
nights the streets are cleaned.
As of last week, cars were allow-ed
to park on the west side of State
Street. This added about 25 park-ing
spaces. The east side of State
Street is for temporary parking on-ly.
periods for various reasons-lack of
attention span, messy class
schedules, etc. We were successful
on this one, by the way.
Thursday morning started out
with the Regent appointed Alcohol
Task Force, of which Northern's
very own Kevin Miles is a
member, along with Dr. Ted Berg,
who is the chairman. When asked
how he felt the meeting went, Berg
said "I thought it was very produc-tive
and the members were very
pleased. It is a very complex isue
and we set some short term and
long term goals and set our
priorities on the specific issues
that we will address. " The task
force will meet again in conjunc-tion
with the December Board of
Regents meeting in Madison.
Director of the Physical Plant
Ralph Johnson said not much is go-ing
to be done with the parking lot
until next spring when landscaping
is expected to begin. He also said
work on the lot probably won't be
completed until next fall. The
Barnett Center is scheduled to be
completed and ready for class use
by the fall of 1987.
While the parking problem may
not be solved to everyones satisfac-tion,
a new problem is soon to
develop this winter. With the corn-ing
of snow and snow removal,
parking spaces will be even fewer.
In addition to this, State Street is
on the emergency snow route. This
means the snow will be removed
from State Street first. While this
sounds great, it could cost students
parking on State Street a lot of
money. According to the City Or-dinance,
any snowfall over three
inches requires cars parked on
emergency snow routes to be mov-ed.
People not moving their cars
will have them towed by the City.
The towing fee is $30. With this pro-blem
quickly approaching, Dr.
Berg said nothing has been done
about it. He also said he plans to
talk to Commissioner Hopper
about this in the future to hopefully
prevent any problems.
Snow removal announcements
are made in advance over local
radio and television stations to let
people know when and where snow
removal will begin.
After an hour-long executive ses-sion
of the Board of Regents, the
Regents convened in the Commit-tee
of the Whole. The Executive
Director Schinness gave his report
and had many praises for our cam-pus,
and the South Dakota higher
education system in general. The
Council of Presidents and
Superintendents gave their reports
to the Board, and then the Board
recessed into the three standing
committees: Committee on
Academic Affairs, Committee on
Internal and External Affairs, and
the Committee on Budget and
Finance. We do have copies of the
minutes of all of these meetings if
anyone is interested in looking at
them. Call 2528 or stop by the Stu-dent
Association Office.
Editorials
Opinions
page 2
Board of Regents and Student
Federation on Northern's campus
South Dakota voters will have a Otto retires after 26 years of service
final opportunity to hear and ques-tion
the state's top-of-the-ticket
political candidates just before the
November 4 election. The Nor-thern
State Student Association
will host a public forum on Mon-day,
October 27, that Democratic
and Republican candidates for
governor, the U.S. Senate, and U.S.
House of Representatives, have
confirmed they will attend.
According to student association
president, Kari Thompson, the
event will be held in Northern
State's Johnson Fine Arts Center
Theatre. Each segment of the pro-gram
will begin with a statement
by the candidates and conclude
with a question and answer session
that will be open to the audience.
She said gubnatorial candidates
George Mickelson and Lars
Herseth will begin the forum at 7
p.m. Jim Abdnor and Tom
Daschle, U.S. Senate candidates,
will appear at 8 p.m. The program
will conclude with a 9 p.m. ap-pearance
by congressional can-didates
Tim Johnson and Dale
Bell.
Thompson said she believes this
will be the final opportunity for
voters to question the six before
the election.
by Deborah Dietz
Besides all the other changes go-ing
on around campus, we'll soon
be seeing one more change take
place. For the past twenty-six
years, Otto Sperle has been the
Custodian for the Union Bldg. All
together, when he retired on Oc-tober
17, he will have dedicated 29
years to keeping Northern clean.
Otto started working for Northern
in 1957 and worked with Tony
Materi in the Administration Bldg.
Then in 1960 when they opened the
Student Union, he moved over to
take charge. Otto told me, "I have
really enjoyed working here, but I
wonder who will be missed the
most—I missing the school, or the
school missing me."
What's the one thing he'll miss
the most: "The students who have
come here over the years. They've
really kept me young." I also ask-ed
him if he has had any real prob-lems
working here. "Not really,"
he replied, "Though every once in
awhile the girls in the kitchen
would holler at me. I just hollered
back, after all, you get along well
that way."
The only Gypsy Day buttons that Otto is missing are the
ones from 1972, 1973, and 1974 to complete his set.
With all the changes over the
past summer, I then asked him if
there have been many changes in
the past. "There really haven't
been any real changes in the Den
part until now. The Den itself will
be harder to take care of now, but
it really does look nice." The one
thing about the changes that he
doesn't like "are the green and
orange clouds."
And what does Otto plan on doing
when he retires? "My wife, Alvina,
and I thought that we would go to
the West Coast for awhile. We've
got friends and relatives out there
that we'd like to see." Otto also has
a couple of hobbies that will keep
him busy. He likes gardening and
also fixes bicycles. "I might even
take up fishing, after all, I received
a brand new rod and reel awhile
ago, and I still haven't had a
chance to use it."
We all wish Otto good luck on his
retirement, and want him to know
that he will be missed.
See page 6,
Retirement party .. .